Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto..

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) Alt. of Acrostica.

Acrostical :: Acrostical (n.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics..

Acrostically :: Acrostically (adv.) After the manner of an acrostic.

Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloon.

Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloonist; an aeronaut.

Aerostatic :: Aerostatic (a.) Alt. of Aerostatica.

Aerostatical :: Aerostatical (a.) Of or pertaining to aerostatics; pneumatic.

Aerostatical :: Aerostatical (a.) Aeronautic; as, an aerostatic voyage..

Aerostatics :: Aerostatics (n.) The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aeronautics..

Aerostation :: Aerostation (n.) Aerial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

Aerostation :: Aerostation (n.) The science of weighing air; aerostatics.

Agrostis :: Agrostis (n.) A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses..

Agrostographic :: Agrostographic (a.) Alt. of Agrostographica.

Agrostographical :: Agrostographical (a.) Pertaining to agrostography.

Agrostography :: Agrostography (n.) A description of the grasses.

Agrostologic :: Agrostologic (a.) Alt. of Agrostologica.

Agrostological :: Agrostological (a.) Pertaining to agrostology.

Agrostologist :: Agrostologist (n.) One skilled in agrostology.

Agrostology :: Agrostology (n.) That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

Amphiprostyle :: Amphiprostyle (a.) Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides..

Amphiprostyle :: Amphiprostyle (n.) An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.

Arthrostraca :: Arthrostraca (n. pl.) One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda..

Birostrate :: Birostrate (a.) Alt. of Birostrate.

Birostrated :: Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks..

Brevirostral :: Brevirostral (a.) Alt. of Brevirostrat.

Brevirostrate :: Brevirostrate (a.) Short-billed; having a short beak.

Centrostaltic :: Centrostaltic (a.) A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center.

Chondrostei :: Chondrostei (n. pl.) An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous..

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